That tracks, the looks, the kisses in blind spots, that he had been imagining and seeing were just another spot for him. It's not like Natasha is giving him all the pieces but just helped arrange them by color and flipped them over. He was still mostly putting them together himself.

"Sweetheart, you pick. Wherever I'm not going to have to deal with Steve any time soon," he says because that's honestly something he's not ready for. "I need us, figured out before I can talk to him," he says honestly. It's why he'd kept running it was all too much to understand all his feelings of Steve and Natasha working together? How was a man even supposed to process this.